Wednesday, March 29, 2006

If you haven't seen the jaw-droppingly brilliant teaser trailer, drop everything and watch it now. It cleverly mashes 80s new wave with 18th century eye-candy (hey, they're both retro) for the tale of this frivolous teen-age queen. It's a bold move --not everyone gets how brilliant age appropriate the teaser is. But it shows again that Sofia is for real.

Could Coppola actually be three for three? The Virgin Suicides showed great promise for the famous offspring of Francis Ford and it also delivered a major performance from Kirsten Dunst. We all know what happened with her follow-up Lost in Translation. For her third trick, Sofia returns with her original star, "Kiki", in tow. This recipe looks risky but let us eat cake!

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My MOST ANTICIPATED movie of the year is your numero 2.I wonder which one is your number 1!!

My expectation is so HIGH, I'm afraid I walked out dissapointed!!

Such expectations concern, in no particular order, this items:

1) SOFIA COPPOLA. I absolutely adored THE VIRGIN SUICIDES and LOST IN TRANSLATION. The latter, I don't know why, is a misunderstood (by audiences at large) treatise in the quality of caring and longing, between seemingly odd people, in foreign places (just like BEFORE SUNRISE). A character-driven, instead of plot-driven film. Why some people can't get that kind of movies? Is its simplicity TOO REAL for their tastes?

2) The teaser. New Order's AGE OF CONSENT is a masterstroke. SOFIA unsderstands POP MUSIC in film better than any director working today (with Wes Anderson and Pedro Almodovar not so far behind)

3) The story. If I had the chance to go back in time and revive history, I would have landed in FRANCE, circa 1789. I watched every movie concerning directly or tangently the REVOLUTION, from DANTON to LA NUIT DE VARENNES.

4) Marie Antoinette. I'm a sucker for HER. One of my favorites books is THE CONFESSIONS OF A QUEEN, by VICTORIA HOLT. Get it, and read it!!

It gives me a Vanity Fair, Memoirs of a Geisha vibe- big, fancy, period production, high profile cast/director, and some questionable casting choices. I'm no fan of Kiki's, and I don't think she's right for this role at all, just like Reese in Vanity Fair.

CONFESSIONS OF A QUEEN DID say Louis was UGLY, as someone can be.So I guess Jason Schwartzman is PERFECTLY CASTED.Also, that MA turned in a very short period span from spoiled, frivolous and unassuming kid to a worried and compromising woman (so worried that her hair turned to grey OVERNIGHT!!)Only it was TOO LATE for a change.

Marie-Antionette was myy #2 as well (Inland Empire was #1)! Cannot wait for this. I like to see the trailer as an obvious riff on Marie-Antionette's pointed greed and the '80s obsession with "greed is good" ya know. It makes perfect sense. And the fact that she uses New Order's (aka, one of THE greatest bands ever - still around, too!) "Age of Consent" is just brilliant. Sofia is great.

And yes, even if it is a disaster (which it has the possibility of, but i so hope it isn't) then at least it'll be pretty, which I didn't even think Memoirs of a Geisha was all that much of.

I love that she has such a bonkers cast. Kirsten, Jason Schwartzmann, Judy Davis (who needs to be in more movies plz), etc...

About the chart, clearly Mission Impossible 3 with the unholy mix of Tom and Phillip Seymour, is gonna be #1, right?!

But seriously, could #1 be Alfonoso Cuaron's The Children of Men with, amongst others, Julianne Moore? Or Todd Haynes' Bob Dylan (sort of) biopic with, amongst others, Julianne Moore. Or the return of La Pfeiffer? Or perhaps the Gondry and Bernal team up of The Science of Sleep? Is Nat a Milos Foreman fan? He has Goya's Ghosts this year. Or, yes, the previously mentioned Paul Thomas movie...? Hmmm....